Newshour

Troops carry out their first attack against one of Haiti's largest criminal gangs; El Nino in Kenya; US Congressman John Moolenaar tells Newshour there are "credibility issues" with Jensen Huang and Nvidia; and we celebrate a hundred years of the Mother Road -- America's Route 66.
Photo: Salvadoran troops operate in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 3, 2026. REUTERS/Patrice Noel

Spanish workers are taking part in the country's first general strike for 14 years to protest against a housing crisis and the rising cost of living. Also on the programme: the surprise message from a star Real Madrid footballer to a boy who lost his legs in Sudan's war; and an Indian feature film storms to the top of the box office chart in the UK and Ireland for the first time.
(Photo: People protest during a 24-hour nationwide general strike demanding wages that allow access to what demonstrators say is decent housing, in Barcelona, Spain, November 11, 2026. REUTERS/Albert Gea)

President Zelensky has described talks in Abu Dhabi between Ukraine, Russia and the US as "constructive and quite substantive". Former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst assesses the prospects for peace on Newshour.
Also in the programme: impeachment proceedings commence against Pete Hegseth; and how chimpanzees learn language.
(Picture: Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan attend the UAE-hosted trilateral talks between the United States, Russian and Ukrainian delegations, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Reuters)

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth defends his record after a Republican congressman launched an attempt to impeach him.
Also on the programme, the British actor and writer, David Walliams, has been named by media outlets as the celebrity who used a court injunction to block the publication of sexual misconduct allegations against him; and the winner of this year's Booker literary prize, sci-fi writer M. John Harrison on his dystopian novel, The End of Everything.
(Photo: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, US, November 10, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

Shares in the American AI chip giant Nvidia fall as the company investigates claims its own boss, Jensen Huang, had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. We hear from a Democratic congressman, who sits on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, about his concerns.

Also in the programme: the British celebrity Russell Brand has been sentenced to ten-and-a-half years in prison for rape and sexual assault; a BBC investigation into the drugs gangs grooming children in the French city of Marseille; and Earth acquires a second Moon - but just for a while.